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Re: Is it possible to have 256 colors in Emacs on framebuffer-enabled tt


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Is it possible to have 256 colors in Emacs on framebuffer-enabled tty
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 02:34:38 -0400

> From: zwz <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:06:02 +0800
> 
> > First, your terminal should report to Emacs that it has 256 colors.
> > Does it?
> How to get the report?
> In bash, the cmd "tput colors" reports 256.
> While in Emacs, it does show 256 color *names* (by M-x
> list-color-display).

list-color-display _is_ the correct way.

> But in fact only the first 8 colors are showable,
> as the 8 color names are shown in the background with the corresponding
> color; the other color names are shown with no color background.

What are the names of the other colors, beyond the first 8, shown by
list-color-display?

Also, which of the lisp/term/*.el files is being loaded by Emacs on
startup for that terminal?



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